Last week we had a new arrival in our extended family and now she is already smiling brightly into the world. Of course I wanted to greet her with a card. In order to create it I stamped and coloured the cute animals from the "Wild Thing" stamp set by Clearly Besotted. First I stamped the lion, masked it off and stamped its two friends. I used watercolour paper and "Jet Black Archival Ink" by Ranger because I wanted to use the Gansai Tambi watercolours I had been neglecting for a while.

After everything was coloured in I added the background and also coloured a strip of paper red in an ombre fashion. After that was dry I glued the letters above the animal's heads and stamped the word "welcome" on top of that. I used a yellow Hero Arts notecard as my card base, added the background stamping on top of it and also distressed the edges a little using "Lemon Drop" Ink by My Favorite Things.